Bitcoin History Part 16: The First Mt. Gox Hack
No one remembers the first Mt. Gox hack. It was a small sum, even by 2011’s standards, and the exchange reimbursed all users. The incident was to prove significant, however,
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Huobi Processed 50% of All PlusToken Withdrawals This Month: Report
Chinese crypto exchange Huobi has seen the highest number of withdrawals from the alleged crypto Ponzi scheme PlusToken to date, new research says.Chinese exchanges prevailNew York-based blockchain infrastructure firm Elementus released a study on Aug. 23, claiming that the number of PlusToken withdrawals sent to Huobi exchange has accounted
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Crypto News From the German-Speaking World: Week in Review
The German-speaking world was highly active as far as crypto was concerned this past week. Among other stories, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued several items of interest to the crypto community, a new fund for blockchain startups launched in Hamburg and an Austrian crypto ATM service
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Chainalysis Rolls Out Real-Time Threat Detector for 15 Major Cryptos
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has launched transaction alerts for suspicious exchanges of a range of cryptocurrencies.In a post published on the firm’s blog on Aug. 22, Chainalysis announced the launch of alerts for suspicious cryptocurrency transactions in Chainalysis Know Your Transaction (KYT), the company’s real-time anti-money laundering compliance solution.
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Send Token Payouts With Ease Using Bitcoin.com’s SLP Dividend Calculator
On August 23, Bitcoin.com released a new application called the SLP Dividend Calculator. The new platform allows users to build a transaction to make dividend payments to any Simple Ledger
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Bitcoin Price Fights to Hold $10K Support While Altcoins See Drops
Saturday, Aug. 24 — crypto markets continued to see red today as Bitcoin (BTC) has dipped below $10,000 price mark several times over the past 12 hours.Only two out of the top-20 coins by market cap are seeing gains over the past 24 hours at press time, including Cardano
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US FTC Settles With Alleged Crypto Pyramid Scheme for $500,000
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled charges it filed in 2018 against an alleged crypto pyramid scheme involving four individuals.Terms of settlementAccording to an official statement on Aug. 22, the regulator permanently banned the defendants from multi-level marketing and misrepresenting investment opportunities and charged a total
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The Bitcoin Price Just Did Something It’s NEVER Done Before
The bitcoin price just did something it has NEVER done before, and it's great news for bulls who view crypto as a stock market hedge. | Source: ShutterstockBy CCN Markets: Bitcoin has been hawked as a safe haven asset for quite some time now, with bulls crediting the rising
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Adoption Shortcut or Blockchain Purists’ Nightmare?
The major digital asset services platform Coinbase has recently announced the long-anticipated completion of a deal that has been in progress since at least May: the acquisition of Xapo’s institutional business. The move projects Coinbase Custody to the status of the world’s largest institutional digital asset custodian, securing more than $7
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Ethereum Is in a Bear Market, But One Analyst Explains Why He’s Long
Nowadays, it seems everyone is bearish on Ethereum and its Ether token (ETH) except for Placeholder VC partner Chris Burniske, who, earlier this week, made the case for why he believes ETH/USD is a great long-term investment. According to Burniske, the oft-cited narrative that the implosion of the ICO market
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